Olaf Stapledon Quotes
Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
Olaf Stapledon
Quotes to Explore
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
Natalie Cole
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
Vera Wang
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From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.
Namie Amuro
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
Ziyi Zhang
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
Olivia Wilde
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
Yingluck Shinawatra
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
Orison Swett Marden
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
Gary Numan
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley
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It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.
Andy Grammer
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I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate an enormous diversity of students. I think all of those institutions have to define particular roles for themselves; they can't do everything at once.
Derek Bok
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I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
William Shakespeare
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There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
Olaf Stapledon